Wikipedia:Department of Fun

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The Department of Fun is dedicated to providing Wikipedians with an entertaining Wikipedia experience. Below, you can find links to fun pages or fun things to do, other Wikipedian Associations, and a list of members who help with the creation and upkeep of entertaining or fun pages.

Please, if you have ideas for activities or competitions, do not hesitate to post them to the discussion page.

Wikitainment

Trivia

Wikifun This page deals mostly with a trivia/scavenger hunt type of competition. The winner of a round goes on to create new tasks for the next round and so on so forth.
Mind Benders This page is now active again- really! Pre-round one will open soon, and round one will open after that. Calling ALL ARTISTS for the pre-round! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 00:03, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Keep an eye out for an upcoming Jeopardy style trivia contest!
On IRC, there is already a bot (Sarti) that does this. Sarti is a bit flaky though, so I'm working on a bot to replace it. It will be a bit closer to quiz bowl style of play, with multiple clues per answer and a pyramidal question structure. Right now, the bot is command line only, so I need to add IRC functionality. →Raul654
A novel front-end for Wikipedia has been invented at: http://blog.outer-court.com/wikitrivia/ where they pick a random article, blank out the subject and challenge you to guess the subject. It's actually quite well done. Perhaps WikiMedia can host something similar as an alternate revenue generator. Samw 00:40, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Games

Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia This particular page is actually really fun. Based on the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, users are able to find the common links between any two pages.
Wikipedia:Wiki-Link Game Although difficult to win, the Wiki-Link Game guarantees a random walk that might be diverting.
Wikipedia Roulette To play Wikipedia Roulette click the link, and if a page comes up that you have edited, you win. Extra points if you can either contribute something to, or correct something on, the page you land on.
Wikipedia:Contests (article-writing and other kinds) are another fun thing to do, all of which encourage users to make contributions.
Wikipedia:Hangman, started out in the sandbox, a good way to pass time with fellow Wikipedians.

And now there's a WikiHangman tournament

Once upon a time... - help write the world's greatest novel, Wikipedia-style!
Wikipedia:Wikirace - A game for two or more players to see who can reach a certain page first.
Wikipedia:Wiki Game - Multiplayer game, see who can "find their way" to a specific page in the least number of clicks.
Chess, an attempt to have a peer-colloborative effort to play entertaining rounds of one of the most well-known intellectual board games ever.

Chess championship, the chess elite of Wikipedia pit against each other to see who's the King of the Board!

N Degrees of Separation Find the shortest path connecting two randomly chosen pages!

Humor

Wikipediholic This page describes the pros/cons of Wikipediholism and also includes a test to see how "wikidicted" you really are.
Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense This one is pretty much self descriptive.
Unusual articles This page is for Wikipedians to list articles that seem a bit unusual. These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are somewhat odd, whimsical, or... well, something you wouldn't expect to find in the Encyclopædia Britannica. see Exploding whale for example or just go to the unusual article link.
File:AtlasAward.jpg
The sandbox used for edit tests can sometimes be quite amusing. You might browse through the page's history or check out Sandbox In-sand-ity to see what fun -- or outright mischief has happened to this page. If you remove something offensive from the sandbox, you might be awarded the "Atlas Award" -- named after Charles Atlas, the famed body-builder, who based his mail order sales business on his claim to have been a "98-pound weakling" who had had "sand kicked in (his) face" by bullies. The sandbox is not a litterbox.
Religion and Wikipedia
- Really Reformed Church of Wikipedia — Excerpt: Jimbo loves me this I know, For the Wiki tells me so . . .
Wikipedia Anti-rules is a compendium of... uh, advice.
Humor category at Meta
meta:Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
Wikipedia:Errors in the Encyclopædia Britannica that have been corrected in Wikipedia

Songs

While Meta:Hotel Wikipedia is the official theme song, there's no reason not to make up your own songs. Since it has been recognized that the Wikiholic in particular needs lots of ways to create their own culture or at least encounter their own despair, we probably needs lots more songs on the Wikipedia:song list. Don't worry you don't have to write music, just rip off a tune everyone knows and change the lyrics, marking it TTTO for "to the tune of" the victimized song.

These songs can be sung in public, but, that may only compound your problem. Just humming a few bars of the song can remind people of the Wikipedia-themed lyrics and create yet more in-jokes that will further isolate you from non-Wikipedian human contact. Which we encourage.

Useful and Fun

Wikipedia:Untagged_Images. Yet another Wikipedia fixing project. You'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures.

Members

Larsie 18:52, 27 Oct 2004
Ravn 19:59, 27 Oct 2004
Chrispy 18:49, 28 Oct 2004
Pedant 01:10, 28 Oct 2004
+s j + 20:57, 29 Oct 2004
→Raul654 22:16, Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
-- Grun t 🇪🇺 22:42, 2004 Oct 29 (UTC)
SweetLittleFluffyThing 07:47, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Danny 12:11, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Jimbo Wales 22:19, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Neutrality^talk
JesseW 12:24, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
BrokenSegue 12:35, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Dante Alighieri | Talk 22:21, Nov 3, 2004 (UTC)
--Jondel 00:57, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Ta bu shi da yu 08:03, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC) (how could I not join up? I'm the original author and substantial editor of exploding whale!)
[[User:Rdsmith4|User:Rdsmith4/sig]] 01:24, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
JRM 20:45, 2004 Nov 8 (UTC)
[[User:Marie Rowley|Marie | Talk]] 07:05, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Johnleemk | Talk 15:14, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Bart133 02:36, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Jaberwocky6669 00:27, Dec 14, 2004 (UTC)
Juraj Betak 07:57, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
kaal 22:12, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
PhaniSridhar 6 Jan 2005
WikiUser 18:34, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
r3m0t 01:27, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Lucky 6.9 20:13, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
multima 15:06, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
Gkhan 23:44, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
Grue 13:54, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
RENTASTRAWBERRY ^{FOR LET?} röck 16:23, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
addesso 21:39, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Project2501a 13:09, 17 May 2005 (UTC) IN SOVIET RUSSIA, DEPARTMENT HAS FUN WITH YOU![reply]
Scnd 09:36, May 17, 2006 (UTC-5)
Demi 2005-05-18
Frenchman113 20:32, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
Ypacaraí 02:56, 2005 May 20 (UTC)
WikiFan04 02:14, 30 May 2005 (CDT)
the wub (talk) 11:15, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 23:55, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) Have taken over responsibilities of Wikipedia:Mind Benders
Zxcvbnm 16:50, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Eric 15:32, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)
Bcat (talk | email) 4 July 2005 18:32 (UTC)
Quinobi PA system: main | monitor 16:17, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Ray 19:50, 27 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
—Gaff ^ταλκ 04:29, 22 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Assignments

If there is any work that needs to be done please post a description and the department of fun will see that it is dealt with.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Round One of Mind Benders is about to open! (in less than a day) Be sure to vote for the artistic entry of your choice, and give a try at the mind-boggling questions. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 19:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Other Wikipedian Associations

Some Wikipedians have formed voluntary associations to participate in various activities on Wikipedia. Consult their pages if you are interested in participating.